Madame Butterfly (play)
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as Cho Cho San (ca. 1902).
Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan is a play in one act by
Puccini's 1904 opera, Madama Butterfly. The title role was originally played in New York and London by Blanche Bates; in 1900–01 in New York by Valerie Bergere;[1] and in 1913 by Clara Blandick
.
Production
Madame Butterfly was first performed March 5, 1900, at the
curtain raiser Naughty Anthony.[2] The play was written and produced by David Belasco, with scenic design by Ernest Gros; incidental music was composed by William Furst.[3]
Cast
- Blanche Bates as Cho-Cho-San[2]
- Claude Gillingwater as Mr. Sharpless[2]
- Frank Worthing as Lieut. B. F. Pinkerton[2]
- Albert Bruning as Yamadori.[2]
- E. P. Wilks as Nakado[2]
- Mary Barker as Suzuki[2]
- Katharine Black as Kate[2]
- Little Kittle as "Trouble"[2]
See also
- Portrayal of Asians in American theater
Further reading
- Clapp, John Bouvé and Edgett, Edwin Francis (1902). Plays of the Present. Dunlap Society, pp. 165–167
- Girardi, Michele (2002). Puccini: His International Art. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-29758-6
- Kerr, Douglas (1991). "David Henry Hwang and the Revenge of Madame Butterfly" in Asian Voices in English, Roy Harris (ed.). Hong Kong University Press, pp. 119–130. ISBN 962-209-282-9
- van Rij, Jan (2001). Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, & the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1-880656-52-3
References
- ^ Strang, Lewis Clifton (1902). Famous Actresses of the Day in America. Boston: L. C. Page and Company. pp. 176–180.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Dramatic and Musical". The New York Times. March 6, 1900. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
- ^ "Madame Butterfly". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Madame Butterfly (play).
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Madame Butterfly at the Internet Broadway Database
- Full text of Madame Butterfly, A Tragedy of Japan (from "Six Plays" Little, Brown 1928)
- The stories of Madame Butterfly, a comparison of Long's short story, Belasco's play, and Puccini's opera.
- Madame Butterfly - catalog record for the incidental music used for the play (part of the Belasco Collection in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts).
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